More detail on this person: On Friday 4/19/01 I
was notified by his first wife Marlene that Merlin
H. Olson had died on 4/18/01. He was the
Mechanical Maintenance Officer of B Company 7th
Spt BN, 199th LIB, RVN, 1968/1969. I am still in
shock that he had died and that Marlene was the
one to notify me as he hated her so much, with
possibly good reason from his story. Ollie had
retired many years before as a Major and had lived
in Enterprise, AL. He had work as a helicopter
instructor for many years at Fort Rucker before
PTSD and pain from the couple of helicopter
accidents got to him. In March, 01 Ollie had move
to NC to live with one of his daughters as the
pain and PTSD had taken over his life. It sure is
a sad story and day. This information was last updated 05/18/2016
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